Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

48. Sitting quietly, being one with the
knowledge ‘I am’, you will lose all
concern with the world, then the ‘I am’
will also go, leaving you as the
Absolute.
You have gone so far away from the primary ‘I am’
that you find it almost impossible to disentangle
yourself from the conceptual jungle that you are
trapped in. Most of us are so deeply enmeshed in
this world that there is no time to even think of all
this. Only those who are sensitive and observant or
have faced a crisis in life realize the futility of it
all. Thus begins the quest of your true identity and
the meaning of life. The Guru’s advice is very
simple: first, you have to understand the ‘I am’ as
the primary concept and root of all the trouble.
Then you have to sit quietly and become one with
knowledge ‘I am’. As you do so you will lose all
concern with the world. Then, quite spontaneously,
if you have been earnest in your abidance, the ‘I
am’ would drop off leaving you free as the
Absolute.